Safety?--Legal system--NOT Justice--(irritating post)

[dentmac]

There are two issues, (with GM and BB)

A fraudulent cover-up. (no verdict in the GM )

The failure of NHTSA to act.

"Suppliers may make changes to reduce costs, improve performance, or increase reliability, etc. As long as they still fulfill the contract with the automakers these changes are allowed. "
But here with GM the change appears solely to correct a safety defect-- A safety defect must be remedied retroactively. Not changing the part number here is the attempted cover-up.

With BB tie rod-- the tier supplier ,TVR "Cheapened" the product. It still appeared to meet the original 16,000 requirement so it was not an issue .The change was found when testing tried to increase the axle rating. The replacement appears to have the same part number. BB and Meritor considered passing liability down to their Tier suppliers but the general overweight issue was far beyond just the tie rods.

NHTSA --
Clarence Ditlow of the Center for Auto safety wrote that NHTSA should have acted:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/....html?_r=0

With BB-- NHTSA has not demanded a fix.and still has an open defect investigation since 2009.